Glad to see this wild episode from the Salish Sea has gone viral. I know orcas gotta eat but good luck not rooting for the seal. Worth a watch if you could use a smile.

Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals. This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.

I am hiring 4 postdoctoral researchers for up to 4 years each. Topics include ice sheet reconstruction, GIA, spatial stats, and satellite geodesy. Based in Tasmania. All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below) 1/n

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle. Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger. Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Exclusive by me: A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, threatening the health of more than 2bn people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research. @amnesty.org www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Apparently even the Seattle gloom is no match for this Aurora.

Now we're getting somewhere.

The #aurora reached at least as far south as here in El Centro, California, a few miles north of the Mexican border! So cool!

In an age where we have fewer and fewer collective cultural experiences that everyone is in on, it’s so special to come online and just scream, “omg omg omg” with strangers from across the country.

Lake Allatoona, north of Atlanta, GA

Arrested fighting an active fire while we were under a Red Flag Warning. Total betrayal all around.

Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Severe geomagnetic storm watch in effect, aurora likely visible across much of the US. Seattle:

NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.

Working in a coffee shop this morning surrounded by the chatter of about 20 elderly women writing postcards to voters in Tennessee, hoping to flip its 7th Congressional district on Dec 2. Just incredibly wholesome stuff.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Timeline cleanse: smokebush (Cotinus) ablaze.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Adaptation 🤝 Mitigation

Learning that our gas company was required to disconnect our gas line for free was absolutely a joyful moment. "Just warning you, it'll be $10k if you ever want to hook it up again" - thanks, but that's not going to be a problem.

If there's a plus side here, it's that it can also be galvanizing - nothing makes the need for strong policy encouraging electrification more clear than trying to decarbonize your home (or life) on your own.

Hey all you might want to check your "require alt text" setting - mine got turned off and it sounds like it's happened to others, too (presumably with recent updates). And if you've never done this, now's a good time: Settings → Accessibility → Require alt text before posting

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

With strapped state budgets and federal climate funding slashed, the value of Washington's Climate Commitment Act has never been more clear: it continues to send billions to communities to advance clean energy & resilience - $3.5 billion since it went into effect in 2023. Other states, take note.

Hey fellow alums: if you'd like to voice your displeasure, here is the contact info for Cornell President, Michael Kotlikoff. (607) 255-5201 [email protected]

As a Cornell alum, this is beyond disappointing. Not just morally but strategically - have they not learned capitulation won't protect us?

Indeed, he was allowed to to kill all those children because he is so rich

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

The blueprint for winning big on climate also came out last night. No more technocratic, policy wonk approaches. People showed they care about utility bills, free buses, affordable housing, etc. These are all climate issues. Talk about climate in terms people understand and experience.

Sold-out crowd for @thewaroncars.bsky.social in Seattle tonight, with more than one shoutout to New York’s mayor-elect: “This is a man who got people to talk about buses. That is a superhero thing to do.”

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Golden hour, Pacific time.

The speed with which salmon have returned to the Klamath - like the Elwha - after dam removal is overwhelmingly hopeful. And in both cases thanks to decades of tireless advocacy by local Tribes.

“To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us." That’s right.

”your struggle is ours, too” is such an amazing moral vision and an actual alternative to those who cant abandon marginalized people fast enough

“Hope is alive.” Amen.

Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy

My phone is blowing up with family in Virginia celebrating. Loving this for them, and for us. The night is off to a great start.

Never, ever gets old. Don't forget to put your ballot in a drop box by 8pm, Seattle (it's too late to trust your vote to the mail!).

New paper from my @cig-uw.bsky.social colleagues on the importance of direct funding to community-led organizations to advance their own resilience priorities. This case study is based on a small-grants program run by the NW Climate Resilience Collaborative, which was terminated by NOAA in May.

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers. For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.

Mango and Marmalade settling in for the Big Dark.

If you haven't registered for this free webinar, it's not too late! Wed (11/5), 2 pm PT. It’s never been more important for the public to understand the value of our science and the threats facing it. The media offers scientists a megaphone for doing this. Come learn how to use it effectively. 📣🧪👇🏼

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

A young family member is currently hiding in a UVA library following an active shooter alert for the second time in a year. This is what our kids think is normal. My God.